
Cinema of the Damned
A directory of horror — thousands of films and series, each scored by the Crypt Score, our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and the reviews of this coven. Hunt by sub-genre, decade, or dread.
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The Amazing Mr. X
›1948 · Thriller, Horror · 78m · Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...

Forgive Us All
›2025 · Horror, Western, Thriller · 93m · Lily Sullivan, Callan Mulvey, Richard Roxburgh
In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus has transformed humans into violently deranged cannibals. A bereaved mother has lost everything and takes refuge in an isolated mountain cabin, until a desperate wounded stranger arrives with a story of hope.

Before I Wake
›PG-132016 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 97m · Kate Bosworth, Jacob Tremblay, Thomas Jane
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.

Synchronic
›R2020 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 102m · Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

Prevenge
›2017 · Horror, Comedy, Drama · 89m · Alice Lowe, Jo Hartley, Kayvan Novak
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.

The Keeping Hours
›PG-132017 · Drama, Fantasy, Horror · 91m · Lee Pace, Carrie Coon, Sander Thomas
A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten years later.

Mama
›PG-132013 · Horror · 100m · Jessica Chastain, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Megan Charpentier
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

Pet Sematary
›R1989 · Horror · 103m · Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

The Mothman Prophecies
›PG-132002 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 119m · Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

The Room
›NR2019 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 99m · Olga Kurylenko, Kevin Janssens, Francis Chapman
Kate and Matt discover that a part of their house can grant wishes. In the wake of two miscarriages, what they want most is a child.

Boy Kills World
›R2024 · Crime, Thriller, Action · 111m · Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, H. Jon Benjamin
When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

Absentia
›R2011 · Horror, Mystery · 91m · Katie Parker, Courtney Bell, Morgan Peter Brown
Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.

The Deeper You Dig
›NR2019 · Horror, Drama · 95m · John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
14-year old Echo and her mother Ivy, a tarot card reader, live a quiet life in a rural area. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo’s murder, and suddenly three lives collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground. But Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won’t stay buried.

Full Circle
›R1978 · Drama, Horror, Mystery · 98m · Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti
After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.

K-Shop
›2016 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 115m · Ziad Abaza, Scot Williams, Darren Morfitt
After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.

The Eclipse
›R2009 · Drama, Horror · 88m · Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novelist Nicholas, her one-time lover. As the festival progresses, the three adults’ lives converge and collide.

Sounds Like
›2006 · Horror, TV Movie · 58m · Chris Bauer, Laura Margolis, Nicholas Elia
Deeply affected by a personal tragedy, an office drone comes to realize his sense of hearing has taken on extraordinary capabilities that could drive him insane.

The Mannequin
›NR2025 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 85m · Isabella Gómez, Lindsay LaVanchy, Shireen Lai
A stylist assistant investigates her sister's death in a historic LA building, only to face a vengeful ghost of a serial killer who dismembered victims decades ago. She must escape before she's next.

When Michael Calls
›1972 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 73m · Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas
A woman begins to receive ominous phone calls from her nephew, who died 15 years earlier. With each phone call, a family member dies. Will she be the next in line?

The House with a Clock in Its Walls
›PG2018 · Comedy, Family, Fantasy · 105m · Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro
When ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky (and creepy) old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise that emanates from the walls. Upon discovering that his uncle is a warlock, Lewis begins learning magic, but when he rebelliously resurrects an evil warlock he must find the secret of the house and save the world from destruction.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy
›R2026 · Horror, Mystery · 133m · Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy
The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

The Lodge
›R2020 · Horror, Mystery · 108m · Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

We Are Still Here
›NR2015 · Horror · 83m · Barbara Crampton, Andrew Sensenig, Lisa Marie
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.

Bride of Re-Animator
›R1990 · Horror, Comedy, Science Fiction · 96m · Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones
Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased Meg Halsey.






















